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TIL /remembered about the Balloon Boy Hoax

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pYoPp TIL about the Khamar-Daban incident, when all but one of seven hikers trying to climb the Khamar-Daban mountains died with mysterious and unexplained symptoms.
o4pE TIL that a public defender, Travis Williams, tattoos the names of every defendant whose case he lost in court on his back. He is up to six.
8aPRX TIL that Steve Irwin was an "autodidact", meaning he was self-taught. He never went to college, and learned everything about zoology/biology by teaching himself and learning from his father.
9wQo7 TIL the famous Hollywood sign was in a state of disrepair and ultimately torn down for three months in 1978. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner helped rebuild it via a $250K fundraising campaign. He then donated $900K to save it again in 2010.
QWjd TIL That a robotic chess machine called ‘The Turk’ toured the world in the 1700s, easily defeating prominent statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. A human chess master was long suspected to have been hidden inside, but wasn’t exposed for 84 years.